FAQ

The menu bar dot is green when cleaning is on and red when it is off. Click it to turn cleaning on or off, or press ⌥⌘V.

Pause cleaning with ⌥⌘V while you copy, or add the source app in Preferences › Exclusions: what you copy from it then keeps its formatting.

No, since version 1.1: content that password managers mark as concealed is never changed, even in uppercase or lowercase mode. Files copied in Finder, links and images are not changed either.

Unformat's ⌥⌘V shortcut is global: while it is on, it replaces the one in other apps, including Finder's “Move Item Here”. You can turn it off in Preferences › Shortcuts.

To grab text you cannot copy any other way: remote desktops, images, videos, dialog boxes. With version 1.1, press ⌃⌥C (or choose “Capture text from screen” in the menu): the screen dims, you draw a rectangle around the text, and it is recognized on your Mac and copied to the clipboard. Escape or a right-click cancels. Right after installation, the very first recognition can take about a minute.

In Unformat's menu, “Capture history” keeps the last ten copied or captured texts: one click puts any of them back on the clipboard. This history lives in memory only; “Clear history” empties it, and it disappears when you quit Unformat.

Just one: Screen Recording, requested the first time you use ⌃⌥C, to read the area you draw. Automatic cleaning needs no permission at all, and nothing leaves your Mac.

Yes: tick “Launch automatically at startup” in Preferences › General, then click “Apply and close”.

macOS 26 or later.

English, French, Spanish and German. Choose the language in Preferences › Interface, independently of the system language.